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> Not a freak, don't care for the infant stage.

Oh that's much better. As we all know, infants don't need their parents for adequate cognitive development. /s

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You put the /s their. But they don't. That's why orphanages can raise children.

There's a difference between the minimal standard of raising a child to functioning adulthood, which is what orphanages generally manage, and raising a well-adjusted, emotionally healthy person who's not held back, having been given only the bare minimum of rearing.

All the research points to active parenting/interaction with children from day 1 being extremely beneficial.

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